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30 Cards in this Set
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Slaves knew little of Christianity or the Bible, and slave masters usually withheld access to religion from their enslaved labor.
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False
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During the early to mid-1800s, sugar produced in the slave South was America’s leading export.
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False
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Following the Nat Turner rebellion, the Virginia legislature discussed the possibility of abolishing slavery within the state.
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True
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Often, many slaves supplemented the food provided by their owners with other food items including chickens and vegetables they raised themselves.
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True
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Improvements in the slaves’ living conditions were meant to strengthen slavery, not undermine it.
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True
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During the 1830s, ’40s, and ’50s, elaborate defenses of slavery grew more and more common in southern public life.
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True
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Dueling was legal in mid-nineteenth-century America.
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False
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According to abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass, "not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness, even among slaveholders."
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True
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During the 1830s, ’40s, and ’50s, southern whites increasingly viewed the region’s free black population as a threat to the system of slavery.
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True
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A small number of African-Americans owned slaves in the Old South.
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True
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In the fifty years following the end of the international slave trade in 1808 the number of slaves in the United States fell by 50 percent.
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False
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After a brief period of apprenticeship, the end of slavery in Britain came on August 1, 1838.
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True
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By the mid-nineteenth century (1800s), all states had made it illegal to kill a slave except in self-defense.
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True
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In 1850, most slave-owning families owned five or fewer slaves.
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True
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By 1860, economic investment in the United States in slaves exceeded the total economic investment in the nation’s factories, railroads, and banks combined.
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True
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In 1860, the South as a whole produced less than 10 percent of the nation’s manufactured goods.
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True
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Slave owners had many ways to enforce discipline among their slaves—from physical punishment, to material incentives, to the threat of sale.
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True
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For slaves, slavery meant constant fear that their families might be destroyed by sale, incessant toil, and brutal punishment.
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True
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Slaves on cotton plantations found harsher work conditions but greater autonomy than did those on rice plantations.
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False
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Some free blacks in the South owned slaves.
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True
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Slaves had many ways to "quietly" resist the power of the slave owners—from feigning illness, to wrecking tools, to performing inadequate labor.
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True
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Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, North and South, henceforth and forever more.
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False
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The laws of almost all southern states recognized the legality of slave marriages.
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False
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In the midst of the American Antebellum Era, the British Parliament launched a program for abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire in 1831.
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True
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In 1860, three of four white families owned no slaves.
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True
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Historians consider Nat Turner’s rebellion to be the only large-scale slave rebellion in the South.
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True
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Separated by large gaps in wealth and breeding, planters and poorer whites of the Old South seldom found anything in common.
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False
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Cotton was the major agricultural crop of the South and, indeed, the nation, but slaves also grew rice, sugarcane, tobacco, and hemp.
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True
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The Underground Railroad ran on steel tracks (after its iron ones were replaced) that were generally hidden in forest growth.
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False
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The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth.
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True
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